Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-20
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Eating maketh full man, writing hun gry man.-Burlington Free Press.
 Henry George gets seventy five dollars a night for featuring. Henry doesn't want any land. Money is good enough for him. Puck.
 Fortune knocks once at every mans door; but she doesn't go hunting through beer sa- looms for him if the man happens to be out. Puck.
 When did General George Washington have his first ride in public carriage? When he took hack at the cherry tree.-Lowell Courier.
 Mir. Simpson Entertaining young lady at the flower show)-s'Do you like Jersey cattle, Miss Frankief' Miss Frankie (enthusiasti eally)-'sLike them? dote on them. was born in Newark, you know. Mail and Ex- press
 Fruit growers in the strawberry belt of H. linois now furnish free chewing gum to the girls who pick from the vines the luscious ingredient of short cake, the object being to preserve the berries for future consumption. Chicago News.
 tDo you find good sale for your verses now, De Wigga" ''Yes, indeed, Le Diggs: I've struck bonanza" "Ah! what is ita" 'sThere is a great demand for posthumous poems by Edgar A. Poe, and am engaged in supplying t."-Pittsburg Chronicle Tele graph.
 Her mother was sowing some seeds, and tried to explain to Maggie how they were put into the ground little seeds and came up plants.
 "Oh, yes!" she said, her face brightening. 'sThey go to bed babies and get up growed people. ."-Youth's Companion. "Mamma," :" said little girl who lives in 8 Harlem fiat, "wasn't Julius Caesar afraid of anythinga" 'fNo; according to Shakespeare, he never experienced the feeling of fear"
 'sThen he never lived in fat," was..the lit tie girls dictum, ''because, if he did, 1 he would be afraid of the janitor. ."- Puck.
 | for you, Bobby" said his mother, "dont | teaze me any more." Bobby lay down on the rug and rolled over | once or twice Then he said from his recum- ! bent position:
 "Ma, do you know that feel like being an | orphani"-New York Sun. | f'How do you spell knee, mamma?' said a
 small boy, looking up from his slate.
 knee, Johnny" Silence for several mo-
 nents, while the letters were going down | laberiously. And then he asked, "How do | you spell grow?' "G-r-o-w." More scratch | ing with the pencil. 'sNow I have got itl'' Johnny exclaimed 'sK-n-e-ene grow gro -negro!"-Youth'sC Companion. A large, portly German. with a jolly look J ! terdav with 8 load of little red balloons
 hitched to stick. His attention was sud
 denly attracted, he turned quickly and his l balloons foated serenely toward the house | tops. He stood watching them grow smaller
 and smaller until they foated out of sight
 behind chimney. Then he drew long
 breath and said with sad voice: "Vell, by
 chiminy, dere goes my peesness. ."-Evening l Sun.
 l "Chief among the many unproftable tasks l imposed on me was the study of English
 grammar" says President Robinson ot
 Brown university, adding: 'That study of grammar came near making useless the next few years of my school life." When sswe were boy we foresaw more clearly than did President Robinson what would be the evil
 results of too much study of grammar. So
 we didn't study it: enough to hurt. That is,
 not enough to hurt very much. Had the teacher of it been stronger man, no doubt | it would have hurt more. e."-Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle,